Sentences with phrase «president declare a state of emergency»

He, however, said that the plan to make the President declare a state of emergency in Rivers failed while measures put in place by the APC leaders to achieve their aim only manifested in their states.

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President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency after a recommendation by his commission on the matter, just two days after Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price said the United States would not do so.

Flint, Michigan hit the headlines early this year when President Obama declared a state of emergency after the area's water supply was rendered undrinkable due to lead contamination from old pipes.

I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, find that the policies and actions of the Government of Nicaragua constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

These detention centers were to be used «in the event that President Reagan chose to declare a «State of Domestic National Emergency» concurrent with the launching of a direct United States military operation into Central America.

A people that allows its president to declare a national emergency within the United States in order to justify an economic embargo against the impoverished country of Nicaragua could easily lose its freedom.

The people of Orumba North and Orumba South in Anambra State have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency, to the unending erosiState have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency, to the unending erosistate of emergency, to the unending erosion...

«I appeal to the federal government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the Education sector for the country to be able to change the fortunes of the system.

He said, «When I went to see the President, he told me that he was under pressure to declare a state of emergency in Rivers Sstate of emergency in Rivers StateState.

According to the Gambian constitution, a state of emergency lasts seven days if the president declares it unilaterally but up to 90 days if the national assembly confirms it.

Last month, President Abdul Fattah al - Sisi declared a state of emergency after at least 45 people were killed in suicide bomb attacks on two Coptic Christian churches in Tanta and Alexandria.

A delegation of South - east and South - south professionals yesterday paid a visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a three - year state of emergency on the economy.

He said his delegation advised President Buhari to declare the state of emergency after due consultation with the National Assembly.

Edwin Clark, convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe...

At what point did President Obasanjo declared statement of emergency in Ekiti State?

Only a few days earlier, during an appearance at the Jackson Houses in the Bronx, the governor, who served as the federal housing secretary under President Bill Clinton, said he was prepared to declare a state of emergency in the buildings of the New York City Housing Authority — which would allow him to replace its failing management team, appointed by the city.

When the state of emergency is finally declared, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan would have exhausted all avenues at arresting the ugly situation having the hindsight that the abokis wanted to make the country ungovernable for him

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in May 2013 in the three northern states where Boko Haram is most active — Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

«Given the unfolding nature of the event and the seriousness of the situation, the NBA hereby declares a state of emergency as it affects the affairs of the judiciary and I hereby constitute a crisis management team, comprising all past presidents of the association.

The people of Orumba North and Orumba South in Anambra State have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency, to the unending erosiState have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency, to the unending erosistate of emergency, to the unending erosion...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in areas worst hit by attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

President Bush declared a state of emergency in northern California on Saturday as firefighters scrambled to control about 1,400 raging wildfires.

President Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa to combat the group's increasingly audacious attacks.

Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has declared a state of emergency for 15 days amid a political crisis.

In fact, SF NAACP President Amos Brown told the local school board that it should declare a state of emergency, because just 19 percent of black students are proficient in English, compared to 31 percent of black students statewide.

In 1985 Major - General Joseph Saidu Momoh became president following Stevens» retirement and promptly declared a state of economic emergency.

A day after California Governor Jerry Brown declared a wildfire state of emergency, the President's Science Adviser John Holdren appeared in a video linking increased wildfires in the U.S. West to human - caused climate change.